mRNA expression pattern of retinoic acid and retinoid X nuclear receptor subtypes in human thyroid papillary carcinoma

  • Authors:
    • Dana Macejová
    • Štefan Galbavý
    • Ján Podoba
    • Lucia Bialešová
    • Július Brtko
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  • Published online on: August 20, 2013     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2013.2670
  • Pages: 2371-2378
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Abstract

Retinoids have shown potential for the inhibition of tumour growth and progression. The objective of this study was to investigate retinoic acid nuclear receptor subtypes RAR/RXR and iodothyronine 5'-deiodinase, type I expression pattern in papillary thyroid tumour tissue of 26 patients in order to compare with those of the non-neoplastic thyroid tissue of the corresponding patients. The expression of selected parameters mRNA was examined by semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) expressed RXRγ, when compared to non-neoplastic thyroid tissues of the corresponding patients that were lacking expression of RXRγ or its expression was very low. Moreover, we found significantly increased expression of RARα and RARγ in the overall group of PTC. This increase was detected in cases with positive lymph node metastasis (LNM), but not in cases with negative LNM. RARβ was significantly reduced in the subgroup of classic variant (CV). We also detected absence or significantly lower expression of hDIO1 mRNA in tumour tissue when compared to non-neoplastic tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup. However, the significantly decreased levels of hDIO1 mRNA were detected in cases with negative LNM but not in cases with positive LNM when compared to corresponding non-tumour tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup. Differences in RAR and RXR subtype mRNA expression patterns in various PTCs may contribute to the immunochemistry data available, and may thus find exploitation in clinical oncology, particularly in the differential diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms.

Introduction

Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) are the most common types of thyroid cancer representing >70% of all thyroid malignancies. PTC occurs more frequently in women, where the most common etiologic factor is radiation, but genetic susceptibility and other factors also contribute to its development (1,2). PTC belongs to a class of well-differentiated thyroid cancers known for a favourable prognosis when the diagnosis, staging, treatment and risk of recurrence are carefully managed. It represents a large group of thyroid carcinomas with several histologic variants including microcarcinomas, follicular variants, encapsulated variants, diffuse sclerosing variants, oxyphilic cell variants, Warthin-like variant (WV), oncocytic variant (OV) and 2 more aggressive variants, the tall-cell variant (TC) and the columnar cell variant (2,3). While PTC is known for its favourable prognosis, ~10% of patients develop recurrence in lymph node and/or distant organs (4,5). One of the important diagnostic characteristics of PTC is nuclear changes, which include subtle irregularities in the nuclear contour and size, deep nuclear grooves, and pseudo inclusions resulting from cytoplasmic invaginations (6). PTC is known for its tendency for multifocality, ranging from 18–46%, depending on the series. Lymph node involvement is common, occurring in ~30% of patients. Extrathyroidal extension ranges from 8–32% of cases. The most common site of extrathyroidal extension is the surrounding muscle (8%), followed by the recurrent laryngeal nerve (6%) and trachea (5%) (7,8). Distant metastases are reported in only 1–25% of PTC patients, representing the lowest rate of all well-differentiated thyroid carcinomas (2).

Both retinoids and rexinoids are known to affect a broad spectrum of biochemical and molecular biology reactions in organisms, but their associated effects are improbable without fully functioning nuclear receptors. Hence, research on the role and function of nuclear retinoid and retinoid X, which play a role as biologically active ligand inducible transcription factors, belongs to the dynamically developing branch of molecular endocrinology. Thus, retinoids are involved in the complex arrangements of physiological and developmental responses in several tissues of higher vertebrates that include embryonic development, vision, reproduction, bone formation, haematopoiesis, metabolism, growth and differentiation of a variety of cell types, apoptosis and processes of carcinogenesis (911). The diversity of the retinoic acid-induced signalling pathway is associated with at least 3 isotypes of nuclear receptors [all-trans retinoic acid, RAR (α, β and γ)] and 3 isotypes of nuclear receptors [9-cis retinoic acid, RXR or retinoid X receptors (α, β and γ)]. Changes of expression of RARs and RXRs during the dedifferentiation/redifferentiation and tumour progression in thyroid carcinomas were first demonstrated by Schmutzler et al(12). Subsequently, changes in expression of RARs and RXRs during the dedifferentiation and tumour progression in PTC were demonstrated in patients treated in Japan by Tang et al(14) and Liu et al(13).

Thyroid hormone influences a wide variety of biological events, including the balance between proliferation and differentiation. The conversion of pro-hormone T4 into the biologically active hormone T3 is catalyzed by iodothyronine deiodinases [type 1 (hDIO1) and type 2 (hDIO2)] (15).

The expression status of RARs and RXRs and their association with the clinicopathological parameters is clearly requisite, hence the aim of this study was to investigate the expression status of both RAR and RXR subtypes in 26 patients who had undergone surgery for PTC.

Materials and methods

Human samples

Tumour and surrounding normal thyroid tissue were randomly collected from 26 patients diagnosed with PTC at the Endocrine or Head and Neck Surgery Divisions St. Elisabeth Oncology Hospital in Bratislava, Slovakia. Sample tissues were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −70°C. Surgery was independently indicated by attending physicians. Tumours were histologically classified and the clinical stage was determined by the tumour, node, metastasis system (16). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the St. Elisabeth Oncology Hospital in Bratislava, Slovakia.

mRNA analyses

Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent according to the manufacturer's instructions. The concentration of RNA was determined by spectrophotometry at 260 nm and the purity assessed from the ratio of absorbance A260nm/A280nm. Reverse transcription (RT) was performed with 2 μg of total DNAse I-treated (Thermo Scientific, Germany) RNA and the Ready-to-Go You-Prime First-Strand Beads (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Inc., USA) according to the manufacturer's protocol. PCR was performed in 25 μl total volume comprising 2 μl RT mixture, 1X PCR buffer, 1.5/3 mmol.l−1 MgCl2 (RARs, RXRs and GAPDH/TRs, SMRT, SRC-1 and hDIO1), 0.2 mmol.l−1 dNTP, 25 pmol of each specific gene primer set and 0.6 U of DyNAzyme II DNA polymerase (Finnzymes OY, Finland) in buffer provided by the manufacturer. PCR was undertaken following treatment of samples at 94°C for 3 min to inactivate reverse transcriptase, which consisted of 35 cycles of denaturing (95°C, 60 sec), annealing (60 sec), extension (72°C, 60 sec), and a final extension at 72°C for 10 min. The oligonucleotide of the primers employed in this study as well as the corresponding annealing times are summarized in Table I(17). These conditions were proven to be in the log phase for each amplified sequence. Triton tumour tissue was used as a positive control (18). A negative control without cDNA template was run with every assay batch in order to assess overall specificity. The PCR products were separated on 2% agarose gel and stained with GelRed™ dye (Biotium, USA). The band intensities were measured using an STS 6220I Documentation System (Ultralum, USA) and normalized to the band intensity of the PCR product corresponding to the housekeeping gene GAPDH.

Table I

Primers for semi-quantitative RT-PCR.

Table I

Primers for semi-quantitative RT-PCR.

GeneSequenceAnnealing temp (°C)Product size (bp)Ref.
RARα 5′-ACCCCCTCTACCCCGCATCTACAAG-3′
5′-CATGCCCACTTCAAAGCACTTCTGC-3′
60226(17)
RARβ 5′-ATTCCAGTGCTGACCATCGAGTCC-3′
5′-CCTGTTTCTGTGTCATCCATTTCC-3′
62349(17)
RARγ 5′-TACCACTATGGGGTCAGC-3′
5′-CCGGTCATTTCGCACAGCT-3′
60195(17)
RXRα 5′-TTCGCTAAGCTCTTGCTC-3′
5′-ATAAGGAAGGTGTCAATGGG-3′
58113(17)
RXRβ 5′-GAAGCTCAGGCAAACACTAC-3′
5′-TGCAGTCTTTGTTGTCCC-3′
58111(17)
RXRγ 5′-GCAGTTCAGAGGACATCAAGCC-3′
5′-GCCTCACTCTCAGCTCGCTCTC-3′
62352(17)
GAPDH 5′-TGAACGGGAAGCTCACTGG-3′
5′-TCCACCACCCTGTTGCTGTA-3′
60307(17)
TRα 5′-AGGAGAACAGTGCCAGGTCA-3′
5′-TCTTGAAGCGGCACAGCTGG-3′
60.4297
TRβ 5′-AACTACAGGTATAAGGCTGATTCAC-3′
5′-ATGCTTCTCTGCGTATATGCC-3′
59295
SMRT 5′-GACCCCACCTCCATACCCCG-3′
5′-GGGAGGTAGGCAAGGCGGTC-3′
64.5392
SRC-1 5′-GCCCTGGGAGCTCCATGGTG-3′
5′-CTCTTCTGCTGGGCCTGGGG-3′
63605
hDIO1 5′-GGACATCAGAAATCACCAGA-3′
5′-TTCCTCTGGGTTGTAGTTCC-3′
57300
Statistical analysis

Data are expressed as means (SD) or as medians (range 5–95%). Statistical significance was assessed using an ANOVA (Bonferroni) test.

Results

Ten males and 16 females were enrolled in this study. Mean age at surgery was 48.9±15.6 years (means ± SD). Clinicopathological parameters of the 26 cases of PTC are presented in Table II. Various types of PTC were recognized: 18 cases of classic variant (CV) (69.3%), 5 cases of mixed type (MT) (19.3%), 1 case of TC (3.8%), 1 case of OV (3.8%) and 1 case of WV (3.8%). The mean tumour size was 24.8±9.9 mm (means ± SD, median=25.5). Only 3 tumours were measured at ≥40 mm. Histologically confirmed lymph node metastasis (LNM) was identified in 14 cases at surgery, but was absent in the other 12 cases.

Table II

Clinicopathological parameters of the 26 cases of PTC.

Table II

Clinicopathological parameters of the 26 cases of PTC.

PatientGenderAge (years)Type of PTCDiameter (mm)LNM (total/no. of positive)
P1F59TC256/0
P2F39OV30 18/1+
P3F32WV228/0
P4F81MT30 10/8+
P5M27MT12 9/5+
P6F70MT40 8/8+
P7F62MT157/0
P8F36MT45 14/7+
P9F72CV203/0
P10F56CV1218/0
P11F46CV154/0
P12M59CV264/0
P13F30CV2811/0
P14F70CV1215/0
P15M53CV3512/0
P16M34CV404/0
P17M66CV407/0
P18M39CV25 8/1+
P19M33CV17 4/2+
P20F36CV28 10/10+
P21M29CV30 9/4+
P22F33CV27 4/3+
P23F57CV22 25/15+
P24M47CV12 4/1+
P25F51CV26 6/1+
P26M55CV12 8/2+

[i] PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; F, female; M, male; TC, tall-cell variant; OV, oncocytic variant; WV, Warthin-like variant; MT, mixed type; CV, classic variant; LNM, lymph node metastasis.

The objective of this study was to investigate all-trans retinoic acid/9-cis retinoic acid nuclear receptor subtypes (RARα, RARβ, RARγ, RXRα, RXRβ, RXRγ), thyroid hormone receptors (TRα, TRβ), nuclear receptor coregulators (SMRT, SRC-1) and iodothyronine 5′-deiodinase, type I expression pattern in papillary thyroid tumour tissue of patients in order to compare with the expression pattern of the non-neoplastic thyroid tissue of the corresponding patients. Fig. 1 shows representative expression pattern of selected parameters.

Statistically increased levels of RARα mRNA in tumour tissue (P<0.05) were detected when compared to the non-neoplastic tissue (Fig. 2A and B). This increase was also detected in cases with positive LNM but not in cases with negative LNM (Fig. 2C) when compared to corresponding non-tumour tissue. However, there was no significant increase of RARα mRNA levels in the subgroup of CV of PTC (data not shown).

In this study of overall PTC cases, no significantly altered expression of RARβ was detected when compared to non-tumour thyroid tissue (Fig. 3) or when the data were considered as positive or negative LNM cases (data not shown). However, there were significantly (P<0.05) reduced RARβ mRNA levels in the CV subgroup of PTC (Fig. 3B).

Normal tissue samples exhibited an overall lower expression of RARγ mRNA when compared to PTC (P<0.01) (Fig. 4A and B). Significantly increased levels were detected in cases with positive LNM, but not in PTC with negative LNM (P<0.01 (Fig. 4C). However, we did not detect this increase in the CV subgroup of PTC (data not shown).

Tumour tissue showed a significantly higher expression of RXRγ than non-neoplastic thyroid tissue (P<0.001) in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup (Fig. 5A and B). This increase was also detected in cases with positive LNM and negative LNM (Fig. 5C) when compared to corresponding non-tumour tissue (P<0.01). However, in the CV subgroup, the significantly higher levels of RXRγ mRNA in PTC were detected only in cases with negative LNM (P<0.01) but not in cases with positive LNM (Fig. 5C).

The expression of hDIO1 mRNA was subsequently studied. The results were consistent with previous literature data in that we detected either the absence or significantly lower expression of this gene in tumour tissue when compared to non-neoplastic tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup (Fig. 6A and B). However, these significantly decreased levels of hDIO1 mRNA were detected in cases with negative LNM but not in cases with positive LNM (Fig. 6C) when compared to corresponding non-tumour tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup (P<0.001 and P<0.05, respectively).

In the present study, the results showed that there were no significant differences in expression of RXRα, RXRβ, TRα, TRβ, coactivator SRC-1 and corepressor SMRT mRNA between tumour thyroid tissue and normal tissue samples. However, higher expression of SMRT mRNA in normal tissue samples of patients with positive LNM was detected when compared to patients with negative LNM (P<0.05) (data not shown).

Discussion

Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most frequent histotype, accounting for >80% of all thyroid malignancies. While PTC is generally associated with a favourable prognosis, 5–20% of patients develop tumour recurrence and 10% have distant metastasis (19). PTC can be further divided into several histotypes. Tall-cell variant (TC) papillary carcinoma is characterized by tall columnar cells eccentric nuclei located adjacent to the basement membrane (20). Warthin-like papillary thyroid carcinoma, a very rare variant of PTC, is histologically characterized as a cystic or solid-cystic thyroid nodule with large, polygonal cells with abundant eosinophilic, finely granular cytoplasm lines on the papillae surrounded by dense lymphocytic infiltrate (21,22). Five variants of PTC were detected in this study: 18 cases of classic variant (CV; 69.3%), 5 cases of mixed type (MT) (19.3%), 1 case of TC (3.8%), 1 case of oncocytic variant (OV; 3.8%) and 1 case of Warthin-like variant (WV) (3.8%). The mean tumour size was 24.8±9.9 mm. Only 3 tumours were ≥40 mm. Histologically-confirmed lymph node metastasis (LNM) was identified in 14 cases at surgery.

Hoftijzer et al(23) found an increased expression of the cytoplasmic fraction of RARα, RARγ, RXRβ protein, and a decreased expression of the nuclear fraction of RARβ, RARγ, and RARα protein in PTCs compared with benign thyroid tissue. However, in this study, increased expression of mRNA of RARα, RARγ and RXRγ in overall PTC cases and/or in the CV subgroup of PTC cases was detected using RT-PCR. Several studies reported reduced RARβ expression in PTC using various techniques (immunohistochemistry, RT-PCR), when compared to normal tissue (23). We found statistically decreased levels of RARβ in the subgroup of CV of PTC.

Haugen et al(24) found very low levels of RXRγ mRNA in all normal thyroid tissue tested, but expression was higher in malignant thyroid tumours in comparison with matched normal tissue stage. In our study, the expression levels of this nuclear receptor were significantly increased in tumour tissue, compared to non-neoplastic tissue. However, we detected 1 patient with increased expression of RXRγ mRNA in normal tissue and 3 patients with very low expression of this nuclear receptor subtype which is in agreement with the study of Liu et al(13), who found no statistical significance between RXRγ expression and patient age, gender or tumour size, while, conversely, RXRγ upregulation mainly occurred in PTCs with extrathyroid invasion, LNM or in advanced tumour. PTC with RXRγ upregulation has been shown to have higher incidence of extrathyroid invasion and LNM, and was more frequent in advanced tumour stages (13). Expression of RARβ and RXRγ in thyroid carcinomas appears to predict response to retinoids and/or rexinoids in tumour redifferentiation therapy (24). Recently, we showed that in the thyroid non-Hodgkin's lymphoma tissue from all-trans retinoic acid receptors, RARβ is the most expressed isoform of RARs. In contrast to normal thyroid tissue lacking in RXRγ expression, thyroid non-Hodgkin's lymphoma tissue was found to express that isoform of RXRs at a high level (25). It has been shown that retinoids and rexinoids are able to reduce tumour growth by inhibiting angiogenesis, tumour invasion and metastasis in various human cancer cells (26,27). In our animal MNU-induced mammary gland carcinogenesis, the administration of TTNPB (selective ligand for RAR subtypes) and/or Phytol (precursor of phytanic acid-selective ligand for RXR) markedly reduced tumour progression, as well as tumour incidence and tumour burden, and significantly regulated expression of several nuclear receptor mRNA, coregulators mRNA in tumour tissue or in selected organs (unpublished data). Furthermore, in this study we found all RAR and RXR subtypes differentially expressed in respective patient samples. We conclude, therefore, that retinoids and rexinoids selectively bound to their corresponding receptors may inhibit tumour progression.

Our previous observations demonstrated that thyroid status of animals can influence the progress of rat mammary gland carcinogenesis (28). Thyroid hormone is also able to block oncogenic Ras-mediated proliferation and transcriptional induction of cyclin D1 in neuroblastoma cells (29). Moreover, it has been shown that thyroid carcinogenesis may be associated with mutations in thyroid hormone receptor β (TRβ) gene (30). The conversion of the pro-hormone T4 into the biologically active hormone T3 is catalyzed by iodothyronine deiodinases (type 1 and type 2) (15). However, in our study, the absence or lower expression of hDIO1 mRNA in tumour tissue was detected when compared to non-neoplastic tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup. These significantly decreased levels of hDIO1 mRNA were, however, detected in cases with negative LNM but not in cases with positive LNM when compared to corresponding non-tumour tissue in both overall PTC cases and in the CV subgroup. Moreover, several studies have shown diminished or unaltered mRNA levels of deiodinases of both type 1 and 2 in the majority of thyroid neoplasias (reviewed in 15,29). Inactivation of both T4 and T3 is catalysed by type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase via inner-ring deiodination. Romitti et al(29) observed increased levels of activity of this enzyme in all analysed PTC samples and mRNA levels were found to be significantly decreased in PTC when compared to surrounding thyroid tissue. It has been shown that PTC samples from patients with lymph node or distant metastasis displayed significantly higher levels of hDIO3 activity than those samples obtained from patients with intra-thyroidal disease (29). Consequently, the reduction of hDIO2 activity may further decrease levels of intracellular thyroid hormone. These observations indicate a role of intracellular hypothyroidism in the tumour cell proliferation and/or differentiation (29).

It has been shown that Seocalcitol (EB1089), synthetic analogue of vitamin D-ligand for vitamin D receptor belonging to steroid/thyroid/retinoid nuclear receptors family, significantly reduced KA and increased Bmax of thyroid receptors in liver of rats with MNU-induced mammary gland carcinomas when compared to healthy animals, treatment with EB1089 or vitamin D significantly prolonged tumour latency, markedly reduced tumour burden and volume (31). Vitamin D also reduced hDIO1 activity in liver of rats with MNU-induced mammary gland carcinomas (31). Treatment of MNU-treated animals with EB1089 and Phytol resulted in markedly reduced mammary gland tumour progression and significantly regulated expression of several nuclear receptor mRNA, coregulators mRNA in tumour tissue or in selected organs (unpublished data). Retinoid receptors (RARs) and thyroid hormone receptors (TRs), as well as vitamin D receptor, act as ligand-inducible transcription factors interacting as heterodimers with retinoid X receptors (RXRs). Thus, these nuclear receptors play a role as ligand-activated, DNA-binding, trans-acting, transcription-modulating proteins involved in a general molecular mechanism responsible (together with coregulators) for transcriptional responses in target genes. RARs exert both beneficial and detrimental activity; while they have tumour-suppressive activity, they are also teratogenic. Several ligands for RARs and RXRs inhibit carcinogenesis, suppress premalignant epithelial lesions and tumour growth and invasion in a variety of tissues. Novel synthetic retinoid and rexinoid analogues acting through RARs as redifferentiation agents could have a predominant role in treating patients with advanced thyroid cancer.

Our data showed that PTC of investigated patients expressed all subtypes of RARs and RXRs when compared to non-neoplastic thyroid tissues of the corresponding patients that were either lacking RXRγ expression or expression was very low. In PTC, expression of RXRγ was enhanced in comparison with that of RXRα or RXRβ.

In conclusion, the molecular mechanisms clearly demonstrate differences in RAR and RXR subtype mRNA expression patterns in PTC as studied by RT-PCR. These findings contribute to this branch of immunochemistry, which offers possibilities for exploitation in clinical oncology, predominantly in the differential diagnosis of thyroid neoplasms.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr Mike Scotter (The Food and Environment Research Agency, UK) for editing the English language of the original manuscript. This study was supported by APVV grants (APVV-0120-07, APVV-0160-11), VEGA grant 2/0008/11 and the Centre of Excellence CEMAN grant.

Abbreviations:

PTC

papillary thyroid carcinoma

CV

classic variant

MT

mixed type

OV

oncocytic variant

TC

tall-cell variant

WT

warthin-like type

LNM

lymph node metastasis

RAR

retinoic acid receptor

RXR

retinoid X receptor

TR

thyroid hormone receptor

SMRT

silencing mediator for retinoic acid and thyroid hormone receptor

SRC-1

steroid receptor coactivator-1

hDIO1,2,3

3,5,3′-triiodo-L-iodothyronine 5′-deiodinase, type 1,2,3

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Macejová, D., Galbavý, Š., Podoba, J., Bialešová, L., & Brtko, J. (2013). mRNA expression pattern of retinoic acid and retinoid X nuclear receptor subtypes in human thyroid papillary carcinoma. Oncology Reports, 30, 2371-2378. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2013.2670
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Macejová, D., Galbavý, Š., Podoba, J., Bialešová, L., Brtko, J."mRNA expression pattern of retinoic acid and retinoid X nuclear receptor subtypes in human thyroid papillary carcinoma". Oncology Reports 30.5 (2013): 2371-2378.
Chicago
Macejová, D., Galbavý, Š., Podoba, J., Bialešová, L., Brtko, J."mRNA expression pattern of retinoic acid and retinoid X nuclear receptor subtypes in human thyroid papillary carcinoma". Oncology Reports 30, no. 5 (2013): 2371-2378. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2013.2670